Peer-led school pilot targets vaping and peer pressure (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: These school children are being scanned for vapes as part of a plan to reduce vaping in schools.

[00:00:08] Speaker 2: When you walk up the hill, you can just see clouds, it's like a constant cloud. It's because there's a good solid 20 kids doing it, walking up the hill, it is a problem.

[00:00:17] Speaker 1: A pilot project sees the students themselves tackle the issues by delivering peer support sessions.

[00:00:23] Speaker 3: We have form time sessions about the impacts of vaping, how people may feel peer pressured.

[00:00:31] Speaker 1: The sessions have made a big impact for those students struggling with vaping.

[00:00:35] Speaker 4: I felt like I was letting my mum down, if that makes sense, and it just made me feel really down about myself and really sick.

[00:00:41] Speaker 3: It was not nice at all, and I just constantly felt unwell and just grossing myself about it.